Comments about BA Applied English Language Studies with Italian - At the institution - Reading - Berkshire
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Objectives
This programme is distinctive in combining the study of linguistic theories with an interdisciplinary and applied perspective, relating to the English and Italian languages. Its main focus is the detailed study of English in its social contexts, situated against the context of other languages in the contemporary world. The close study of another major European language and its culture provides an important comparative dimension to the course. In the case of Italian you do not need to have any prior knowledge of the language.The Italian elements of the degree are taught by staff in the Department of Italian Studies, which has staff of international status, including Italian native speakers.The Department is one of the largest in the UK, with nine full-time academic staff.It has a distinguished record in research and scholarship, and was awarded the highest grade, 5*A, now 6*, in the last Research Assessment Exercise.The degree is in the format major-minor, and offered in full-time and part-time (daytime) modes.
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Entry requirements
There are different entry qualifications for each programme. Some programmes require you to have a certain amount of knowledge in a subject before you begin the degree programme – this is called a ‘subject requirement’. Other programmes do not have any specific subject requirements. All programmes will, however, expect you to have reached a certain standard in your education and will ask you to achieve certain grades in your examinations. Most programmes have a standard offer so that you know in advance what you are likely to need. Please note that even if you have the minimum entry qualifications, you are not necessarily guaranteed a place on the degree programme.
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Academic title
BA Applied English Language Studies with Italian
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Course description
Year 1
-Sounds, Grammar and Meaning
-English Language and Society
-English Language in Use (optional)
-For students with an A level in Italian:
-Advanced Italian Language I
-20th Century Italian Culture
-For students without an A level in Italian:
-Italian Language (Elementary) and Culture OR Italian Language (Lower Intermediate) and Culture
-Optional module (open to all students)
-Italian Medieval and Renaissance Culture (in Translation)
Year 2
-Issues in Language and Society
-Approaches to Discourse
-Research Methods
-English Grammar
-English Phonology
-Italian language
-History of the Italian Language
-Italian Cinema
-Italian History and Society since 1945
-Italian Modernism
-Italian Narrative and Poetry in the Nineteenth Century
-Writing Women in Early Modern Italy (1300-1650)
-Contemporary Italian Literature
-Women in Contemporary Italy (1900-2000)
Final Year
-Semiotics and Stylistics
-Literacy: Social, Educational and Cognitive Perspectives
-Dissertation
-Aspects of the Renaissance in France and Italy
-Dante
-European Cinema
-Modern Movements in Poetry 1900-1920
-The South since 1860: Images and Reality
-Umberto Eco
-Court Culture in the Italian Renaissance 2
-Fantastic Literature in Italy 1860s-1980s
-Women's Everyday Life in Italy from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution
-The Republic of Venice from c.1454 to 1571
